Azure Website Performance - MVC Application Azure Websites

Question

I am hoping to get some advice as to how i can figure out what is going on with some performance issues i am suffering from. I have a custom MVC application which is running on Azure Websites in West Europe datacenter. I have one of our offices trying to connect to the website from Singapore which is where the problem lies. If i connect to the website myself (from UK) the performance is fast and zippy. If our Singapore office tries to connect the performance is terribly slow. Sometimes getting to the initial homepage is slow (i.e. no database connections required for login page).

The page will sometimes just sit and "hang" there. What i want to know is how can i debug the performance issues with Azure? What kind of monitoring or performance checks can i do to see if it is a website / sql issue.

Thanks

Answer 1

I would suggest using Application Insights. It's easy to add to a custom MVC app, and will give you good info to help determine where exactly the issue lies.

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/app-insights-detect-triage-diagnose/